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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
He paid the ultimate penalty. There is no higher one society can give. Yes even if he had only killed one man his life wouldn't be full compensation. An innocent life for a guilty one isn't totally fair either but, he paid all he had. That's better than the alternatives which are less.
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I guess we have different ideas of "compensation".
He killed two people and paid nothing back. He's dead. He is buried in the ground. He didn't compensate anybody and nobody was paid back. Nobody was satisfied. He didn't pay for the privelege of killing those people.
The way you talk about it, it's like some sort of morbid barter system. Almost "you kill them, we kill you, everybody's happy", only it doesn't work like that. It works like "you kill them, we kill you, nobody is happy, but at least we killed you".